Approved Premises: Coastal Areas

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many bail hostels there are in each of the principal seaside towns in England.

David Hanson: The Bail Accommodation and Support Service provided by ClearSprings Ltd. under contract to the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), to which I take this question to refer, does not provide hostels. It provider people on bail and on Home Detention Curfew with private, rented accommodation in small houses and fiats with up to five people sharing. The numbers of houses currently provided in coastal towns in England, and Wales, are shown in the following table:
	
		
			   Number 
			 Blyth 1 
			 Bournemouth 2 
			 Cardiff 3 
			 Grimsby 1 
			 Hull 1 
			 Liverpool 4 
			 Plymouth 2 
			 Portsmouth 3 
			 Southampton 2 
			 Sunderland 2 
			 Swansea 2 
			 Weston-super-Mare 1